Section 4 Harlem Renaissance Chapter 13 Section 4 Harlem Renaissance

African-American Voices DuBois and James W. Johnson Marcus Garvey NAACP – protest racial violence Antilynching laws Represented new more militant voice Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) Build a separate society Speeches, mass rallies, parades Promote black businesses Return to Africa

Literary and artistic movement celebrating African-American Culture Harlem Renaissance Literary and artistic movement celebrating African-American Culture Alain Locke publishes The New Negro

Writers Claude McKay Langston Hughes Resist prejudice and oppression The pain of being black in a white dominated world Describes the difficult lives of working class blacks Jazz and blues tempo

Female Writers, Actors Zora Neale Hurston Paul Robeson Portrayed the lives of poor, illiterate Southern blacks Celebrated the common person Dramatic actor Shakespeare’s Othello

Jazz Louis Armstrong-trumpet player considered most important musician in history of Jazz Duke Ellington- jazz pianist and composer Bessie Smith – female blues singer Cotton Club – famous Jazz nightclub